I am sick of cables

The problem I have with "truth about cables" articles is that they bring everything to capacitance and inductance of the cable. They don't believe in any correlation between sound and metal that cable is made of (and its purity). Most of people would agree that silver sounds different than copper but to them it has to be the same.

As for inductance and capacitance - average cable has 30pF/ft and 0.5uH/ft while great cable has 10x less.
To get this you need exotic dielectric like foamed Teflon (not cheap).

Metal purity plays role IMHO and while regular oxygen free copper has couple thousands of crystals per meter 99.9999999% pure copper cooled in hot forms has one crystal. Impurities reside between crystals. Copper oxide is a rectifier (and was used as such in early age before semiconductors). What about dielectric absorption? Are you sure it is not affecting the sound.

All I'm saying is that we don't know enough to judge. As far as I know we're not even sure how electric current flows.

When cable nay-sayers post on cable forum it reminds me a man who responded to an add for music teacher. He could not read music or play instrument and was almost deaf but responded to tell them they should not count on him.

The truth lies somewhere between here.....

"The cable and tweak industries in audio are for the most part a sham and a big part of the great audiophile swindle."

AND

"More $$$ always buys better cables.

Anything less than $2000.00 and you are hearing sludge!

If you can not hear the difference between $300.00 cables and $2000.00 cables than you are going deaf."

I favor the latter by far....There are a few producers that really make magical cables.....I am amazed sometimes....I try the latest and greatest and come away dissapointed.....good detail...lousy bass and dynamics...but the one thing that seperates the big boys from the dreamers....is the amount of veiling or the degree of blackness. I laugh and say wtf...did I just get scammed or what....you can't help to think....there's a awfull lot of shills out there.

Wave,

You have some serious $$$ in your cables and system.

SE CP 300B tubes (I have) all over the place (12?). I would love to hear those 300B's sing.

Glory...you can't go wong with the 300B....if you ever visit Reno...let me now.

Perhaps the best match between components, speaker, room, and expectations permits the use of ordinary cables.

My secondary system was magic out of the box. The interconnects are stock Sony es with Radio Shack 16 gauge unterminated speaker wire. The power cords are all stock and plugged into a cheapo surge protector strip. Any attempts I ever made to "upgrade" any of the cables resulted in worse sound.

On my main system, cable upgrades have been noticeable and some are better than others. There are also some cables that were obviously just system wrong. The thing that I find strange is the one system that sounds so darn good with only the cheapest, while the other wants the high price spread.